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RAID Question

OrbitzXT

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A situation has arisen that my friend needs a motherboard, I was considering buying a new one for myself so I can put hard drives in a RAID 0 array and giving him the one I have now. I'd like to put 3, maybe 4 drives into RAID 0, but I'm not completely sure how many a motherboard will allow in RAID. For example I was looking at this motherboard with an ICH10R southbridge. The pictures show 2 purple color SATA and 6 yellow. Which can be used to setup RAID? If this motherboard can't do more than 2 drives in RAID can someone link me to one that could?

I looked at the manual for this motherboard and it says the following...

Storage Interface South Bridge:
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_0, SATA2_1, SATA2_2, SATA2_3,
SATA2_4, SATA2_5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 101
GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
- 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
- 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GSATA2_0, GSATA2_1) supporting up to
2 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD

...so if it can support up to 6, what are the different colors indicating?
 
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The 6 yellow are from the south bridge,and the two purple are from the gigabyte chip.And this board would be fine for your raid needs.
 
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Yes, this board has more than enough raid sata port.
 
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